“Yeah, my thoughts too,” he growled, and I looked up at him to see that his gaze was on my lips, not what I’d pulled out of my bag.
“First these,” I managed to squeak out and held up the feathers in my hand. “It’ll keep them safe from Karissa and Clovis.”
I didn’t want to lose Crash to some stupid spell any more than I wanted these feathers to end up in a terrible spell that would apparently be end-of-the-world bad.
His jaw ticked and he nodded. Turning his back to me, he stoked his coal forge and got the flames going high in a matter of minutes. Minutes that felt like hours as I stared at his broad back, tapering down to his fit waist and muscled thighs that I wanted nothing more than to hang onto. I crossed my legs as if that would help the throbbing in my lower regions.
Crash turned, eyes still far too dilated for anything but lust to be rushing through him. I gave him the feathers, and he took them in a set of tongs and put them into the flames. They caught the red and orange licks of fire and then began to sparkle, not going straight into a pile of ash like you would have expected. No, all the colors of the rainbow burst out of them and then the feathers turned black, solidifying into hunks of coal that crumbled in the forge.
“Just like that,” I said softly. “Why didn’t they do it sooner?”
Crash frowned. “Maybe we can talk about that later, because with a house full of people, alone time has suddenly become harder to find.”
He strode to me, coal dust on his hands as he scooped me up and set my butt on the anvil, sliding himself between my legs. I draped my arms over his shoulders.
“What are you suggesting exactly?” I smiled, giddy warmth stealing through me.
He leaned in close and pressed his lips to mine in a kiss that was more chaste than I’d expected. “That maybe the forge is exactly the place to heat things up.”
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